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This catchy song about words in the -at word family comes from PBSKids series, "Between the Lions". The premise of the song is that if you can read "at", you can read many other words, too, including: fat, flat, sat, scat, and more. The words are bui...lt on the screen as they are mentioned in the song, making it easy for kids to see and read the words that are in the song. This provides excellent practice in blending initial consonants with -at family. (00:45)[more]

Short a words are the focus of this simple cartoon video. Letters appear on the screen one at a time and the narrator blends them for the viewer. The vowel (a) appears first, then the ending consonant, then the beginning consonant. Word families incl...uded in this video include -am, -ad, and -ag. (02:26)[more]

Students will enjoy this animated video as they learn to read words. Words ending in ank, ant, ing, ird, orn, esk, ess, and ast are addressed. There are advertisements at the beginning and end for First Step Reading. This is a great resource for the ...early childhood classroom to help build reading skills. (5:49)[more]

In this cute video, 3 letter words scroll down and stop (ed, at) and then the beginning letter stops last. The speaker asks if it is a word. If it is, then the picture and word is shown. This is a great resource to help introduce and/or reinforce bas...ic word families in the early childhood classroom. (2:28)[more]

In this video segment from Between the Lions, Leona leads a cheer, urging her cheerleaders to "hop 'til they drop." This rhyming cheer shows several strategies for building letter knowledge and spelling skills. This video segment provides a resource ...for Phonics and Letter Knowledge Awareness. (0:48)[more]

This video teaches children how to take two separate sounds, the Short I sound, "i" as in "i-cky" and Consonant sounds and blend the sounds together. The process of combining sounds is called blending.
Blending is taught by moving the Short "i" sou...nd and the Consonant sound closer and closer together so that the child learn to say the sounds closer and closer together. There are advertisements at the beginning and the end for First Step Reading. This is a great resource for the early childhood classroom to help build mastery of this important skill. (4:43)[more]

This video teaches children how to take two separate sounds, the Short U sound, "u" as in "u-p" and Consonant sounds and blend the sounds together. The process of combining sounds is called blending.
Blending is taught by moving the Short U sound a...nd the Consonant sound closer and closer together so that the child learn to say the sounds closer and closer together. There are advertisements at the beginning and end for First Step Reading. This is a great resource for the early childhood classroom to help build mastery of this important skill. (4:56)[more]

Early Readers introduce a few sounds at a time, building on each sound with simple three letter words. Young learners will learn at, sat, rat, cat, on. Students will see the words as they are read aloud. This is a great resource to introduce and/or r...eview the "at" family in the early elementary classroom. This would be very helpful for struggling readers. (2:02)[more]

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